Spurned lover gets 17 years for hotel murder

Nadine Aburas, 28, was strangled by Sammy Almahri in his hotel room in Cardiff Bay. He was jailed for a minimum of 17 yearsPA

A New York property developer has been jailed for a minimum of 17 years for the murder of a woman from Cardiff he met on the internet.

Sammy Almahri, 45, strangled Nadine Aburas, 28, in a hotel room in Cardiff Bay after she refused to marry him. Almahri tried to make her death look like suicide then went on the run to the Gulf before he was arrested three weeks later in Tanzania.

The judge at Cardiff crown court, where Almahri had changed his plea to guilty on the second day of what was expected to be a four-week trial, said that he had killed Ms Aburas out of anger and jealousy.

Sammy Almahri initially claimed that he had heard the voice of God instructing him to kill Miss AburasPA:Press Association

Mrs Justice Nicola Davies jailed him for life with a minimum of 17…

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